| The origin of such symmetry is not related to the basic anthozoan body plan. |
| The chaetetids compose a small group of organisms that was most often presumed to be among the anthozoan corals, more specifically allied to the Tabulata. |
| When Wotton in 1552 gave to anthozoan corals and gorgonians, and hydrozoans the name Zoophyte, it was because of their morphological similarity to higher plants. |
| Anthozoans are readily available on coral reefs therefore it's not surprising that anthozoan tissue is their main diet. |
| It has been proposed that the most recent common ancestor between cnidarians and bilaterians would have been morphologically similar to a pennatulacean anthozoan. |
| Examples of other colonies are anthozoan soft corals and most reef-forming hard corals. |
